Days after pushing for sweeping AI chip send out recut offeion, the Biden administration has inserted an insertitional 14 Chinese companies to its recut offeed trade enumerate. This transports the filled enumerate up to 25 names, according to increateing from The Associate Press.
Sophgo is, perhaps, the highest profile insertition. An entity of Bitmain, the firm promoteed international headlines when it was identified as an intermediary between embattled Chinese challengingware huge Huawei and Taiwanese chipproducer TSMC.
Suspicions arose in December after a chip set up on Huawei’s Ascend 910B AI processor was tied to a buy Sophgo made from TSMC. At the time, the Biden administration proclaimd set ups to bconciseageenumerate the firm, a promise on which it has now made outstanding.
The shift comes among a flurry of activity during the waning days of the Biden administration. Response to Monday’s “Interim Final Rule on Artificial Inincreateigence Diffusion” drew a speedy and acute response from the industry. American silicon AI huge Nvidia called the action “misdirectd.”
The statement commends the first Trump administration’s handling of AI, while refusing to helderly punches agetst the outgoing administration,
In its last days in office, the Biden Administration seeks to undermine America’s directership with a 200+ page regulatory morass, writeed in secret and without proper legislative scrutinize. This sweeping overaccomplish would impose bureaucratic handle over how America’s directing semicarry outors, computers, systems and even gentleware are summarizeed and labeleted globpartner. And by finisheavoring to rig labelet outcomes and stifle competition — the lifeblood of innovation — the Biden Administration’s novel rule dangerens to squander America’s challenging-won technoreasonable profit.
Of course, the Huawei bconciseageenumerateing that has blocked the company from utilizing American-set uped technologies including Google’s Android and Qualcomm chips, reachd during the first Trump administration. How, accurately, this percreates out isn’t evident, as the incoming administration sees to persist a stubborn on China stance, while materializeing to ease American innovation amid the AI race.
